It's not a move from trains to cars, but rather from highly congested highways full of cars controlled by people (who are, as we know, liable to cause traffic jams just by stepping on the brake at the wrong moment) to a more-or-less fluidly moving highway full of cars controlled by the equivalent of a guide beam, hopefully maintaining optimal positioning and speed.
You can state whatever you like, but there's saying it and saying it, y'know? Carefully outlining that scholars disagree about the number of people killed during the Holocaust is one thing -- it may raise some hackles, but as long as you do it with all due scientific and academic diligence, you ought to be fine.
If you spout nonsense a la "Hitler was an OK guy, and so were the Nazis, and they never killed that many people" you're basically declaring allegiance with an ideology that by its very nature is unconstitutional and which cannot be made congruent with the aims, goals and means of a modern democratic republic. THAT is the part that'll get you indicted.
Even in America, free speech is not entirely free of consequences. In Germany, those consequences are more drastic, but they have little to do with the ACT of saying something, but rather with the implications of saying something that is unconstitutional.
Having followed the game since it was first shown at the GDC, I can honestly say that all the hype was fandom-based. EA was surprisingly mum about the whole thing. Hell, for the most part of the last three years, the main website was a Flash placeholder animation with no pertinent information whatsoever.
No, the hype surrounding this game came from people simply too taken with the concept to wait and see. Which is understandable, really, and I certainly belonged in that category for the first year or so.
Funnily enough, I found that the Anonymous Bastards (TM) posting at 4chan (where anonymity is encouraged or, on one board, enforced) give the impression, on average, of being more literate than most of what I commonly see in "normal" message boards and online forums. Why this would be the case, I do not know.
You know, when it said "game developers" in the summary, I expected, oh, perhaps someone from a big studio? You know, one that people care about and respect?
I really should stop taking those summaries seriously.
Where you see a farce, I see the major parties being slapped in the face for not getting over their little disputes over dogma and being forced, for the first time in forty years, to face the real music instead of the tunes they've been whistling to themselves.
Interesting. Personally, I have never found a game more jarring and empty (in the soulless sense) than Morrowind. I suppose I represent the other end of the spectrum.
There are those, but there are also others that play those linear games for the story, rather than for the gameplay experience. It's an approach more similar to a book. Especially one of those Adventure books...
SimLife and EVO are certainly on the list of analogies, but Spore takes the cake for going beyond the simple putting together of functional parts. Imagine how cool EVO could have been if you had been able to decide, for yourself, the shape of your creature, rather than being limited by the (still very fun) selection of parts it offered you per stage.
Well, if you go by what's been listed for the previous one-seater prototype M150 (45 mpg on Natural Gas, 30 mpg on Alcohol), 28 mpg for the two-seater doesn't sound too far off.
The most commonly cited evolution game (at least among the Spore forum regulars) is clearly E.V.O. - Search For Eden, a little-known but much-loved SNES classic.
I am looking forward to the new edition as well. Considering that FanPro is doing it this time, I wouldn't be too surprised to see the old system overhauled completely. I think they already did this with Mechwarrior? But my sources may be off.
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It's not a move from trains to cars, but rather from highly congested highways full of cars controlled by people (who are, as we know, liable to cause traffic jams just by stepping on the brake at the wrong moment) to a more-or-less fluidly moving highway full of cars controlled by the equivalent of a guide beam, hopefully maintaining optimal positioning and speed.
You can state whatever you like, but there's saying it and saying it, y'know? Carefully outlining that scholars disagree about the number of people killed during the Holocaust is one thing -- it may raise some hackles, but as long as you do it with all due scientific and academic diligence, you ought to be fine. If you spout nonsense a la "Hitler was an OK guy, and so were the Nazis, and they never killed that many people" you're basically declaring allegiance with an ideology that by its very nature is unconstitutional and which cannot be made congruent with the aims, goals and means of a modern democratic republic. THAT is the part that'll get you indicted. Even in America, free speech is not entirely free of consequences. In Germany, those consequences are more drastic, but they have little to do with the ACT of saying something, but rather with the implications of saying something that is unconstitutional.
The usual "lol germany u suck 4 censurship nazi symbols r ok!!!1!" kneejerk reaction by non-Germans.
Am I alone in thinking that some systems are better off with a buffer of redundancy rather than streamlined efficiency?
That's going to happen with the third DLC (Broken Steel, the one that also raises the cap), as far as I have been able to find out.
That is certainly news to me, as a German. And the word doesn't even make sense. Is that supposed to be a regional dialect?
Having followed the game since it was first shown at the GDC, I can honestly say that all the hype was fandom-based. EA was surprisingly mum about the whole thing. Hell, for the most part of the last three years, the main website was a Flash placeholder animation with no pertinent information whatsoever. No, the hype surrounding this game came from people simply too taken with the concept to wait and see. Which is understandable, really, and I certainly belonged in that category for the first year or so.
Then surely L. Ron is the Wheelchair?
Funnily enough, I found that the Anonymous Bastards (TM) posting at 4chan (where anonymity is encouraged or, on one board, enforced) give the impression, on average, of being more literate than most of what I commonly see in "normal" message boards and online forums. Why this would be the case, I do not know.
You know, when it said "game developers" in the summary, I expected, oh, perhaps someone from a big studio? You know, one that people care about and respect? I really should stop taking those summaries seriously.
I'd hate to live in a time with such a funked-up definition of "positive difference".
You're still using toploaders in the US? Fascinating. Then again, so do the Japanese. Hmmm. I wonder what the advantages are?
Where you see a farce, I see the major parties being slapped in the face for not getting over their little disputes over dogma and being forced, for the first time in forty years, to face the real music instead of the tunes they've been whistling to themselves.
Interesting. Personally, I have never found a game more jarring and empty (in the soulless sense) than Morrowind. I suppose I represent the other end of the spectrum.
There are those, but there are also others that play those linear games for the story, rather than for the gameplay experience. It's an approach more similar to a book. Especially one of those Adventure books...
Oh, it also was a SNES game. ;)
SimLife and EVO are certainly on the list of analogies, but Spore takes the cake for going beyond the simple putting together of functional parts. Imagine how cool EVO could have been if you had been able to decide, for yourself, the shape of your creature, rather than being limited by the (still very fun) selection of parts it offered you per stage.
MS? Heck, MS at least produces something. SCO, now...
Yeah, but how much would the prototype of a Cessna cost? Still, I want to see how much this thing would cost should it go into production.
Well, if you go by what's been listed for the previous one-seater prototype M150 (45 mpg on Natural Gas, 30 mpg on Alcohol), 28 mpg for the two-seater doesn't sound too far off.
Forgot to plug shamelessly: when I say "Spore forum", I mean Gaming Steve's Spore Forum.
The most commonly cited evolution game (at least among the Spore forum regulars) is clearly E.V.O. - Search For Eden, a little-known but much-loved SNES classic.
Will Wright's latest brainchild should have more people drooling over the idea, not just us already rabid fanbois. :)
I am looking forward to the new edition as well. Considering that FanPro is doing it this time, I wouldn't be too surprised to see the old system overhauled completely. I think they already did this with Mechwarrior? But my sources may be off.
That is either the best sarcastic remark I have ever seen, or proof of an ignorance so great it scares the bazooks out of me.